Eli Hadley

“For the first time, then, she caught a glimpse of what the power of speaking might be. It wasn’t a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, like the priests offered. It was something else entirely. Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“They were both, after all, still children whose lives were dictated by powers above them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Well, let’s elect you Minister of Withholding Information, then,”
― Jude Watson, Master of Deception

“A mercy it is,” he said at last to himself, “that I woke up when I did. I wish Thorin were living, but I am glad that we parted in kindness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit